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“Hubby brought home a couple of vanilla beans for us to play with. I snipped off a few slivers into a second steep of this. Even at Steep 2, the honeysuckle is so strong, I’m not sure I was getting...” Read full tasting note
“I got a sample size of this with a very small order I placed with Shang. Actually I ordered one ounce of one kind of tea and several samplers of others. This tea smells like honeysuckle through and...” Read full tasting note
“I’ve never had honeysuckle in tea before so I wasn’t too sure what to expect. Steeped at around 175 F for 2 minutes the liquor of this tea is a lovely golden yellow color. The aroma of the...” Read full tasting note
“So the boyfriend opted for the black currant bai mu dan from 52teas, but I wanted something I hadn’t tried before. I took his lead on the white though, and started looking at what I had. This is...” Read full tasting note
Note: This Tea is 100% Organic
Smooth and soothing, Honeysuckle White Tea blends 30% Honeysuckle blossoms and 70% White Peony Tea for a round and enchanting cup. This combination is not only beautiful and delicious, it contains wonderful healthful qualities.
In China, there are over 100 species of wild Honeysuckle. Highly prized for its medicinal value, Honeysuckle is used in China and Europe to cool the body to alleviate headaches, sooth sore throats, and is considered to have anti-inflammatory properties.
http://www.shangtea.com/Honeysuckle-White
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I received a sample of this tea from Nicole. I’ve been meaning to try honeysuckle tea, but this is the first chance I’ve had to sample it. It has a lovely floral scent, and the taste itself is sweet like flowers with a hint of a grassiness. I haven’t had many white teas, but as it stands, I think this could be my favorite. I’ll have to consider buying this tea next time I buy more tea.
It reminds me of toasted green beans.
Thanks so much to Amanda Wilson for a sample of this tea!
Maybe my first Shang tea? This is quite charming. Creamy hay like white tea and gentle sweet floral honeysuckle. Very nice!
I have such a love/hate relationship with honeysuckle. I LOVE the scent, and I used to sip the nectar from the blossoms as a kid. (SO GOOD!) As an adult however, I’ve got honeysuckle taking over my flower bed and it is SUPER ANNOYING! shakes fist at it :)
Yet another tea from Shang Tea that is great!
It must have been one of the best white teas that I have tried so far – smooth and sweet, fragrant and delicate in a way that only white teas can be… I have no idea how honeysuckle tastes / smells in isolation but it blends wonderfully with the base tea and enhances some of its natural sweetness and charm. I still have a little bit of my sample left, but I will be definitely ordering more of it some day.
Everything I’ve had previous from Shang Tea has been wonderful, so I had admittedly high expectations for this even though it was a bonus sample (yay!) and not something I had chosen myself.
I’ve never had honeysuckle blossom in a tea before, so I wasn’t completely certain on what to expect.
The cup is sweet, buttery, vegeta, sweet and slightly nutty. It’s not a honey sweetness, and not really sugary either, but more of a floral-like sweet.
It’s hard to pick out the base because it all kind of blends together to create a really lovely, relaxing cup.
And for fun, this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG2FgFWGPCE
is my earliest memory of honeysuckle.
